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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been researching with the same concern.  We have started our oldest in private and they have siblings coming behind them once old enough.   We are in PG.   We adore the private so far and it is a community of very successful upper middle class peers and their children...many who are also AA.  The students are testing highly and are moving on to many of the big name privates in this area.   The school has high standards and so do the parents.  It has been the best choice for us.   By the time our oldest is in 5th, we plan to move so that a good public middle and high school will be an option.  We are looking in VA and like you the overall great schools ranking don't mean much to me.  I look at how AA children are performing.  Virginia's school website breaks this data down and makes it easy to eliminate many schools from consideration.   I looked at where do they have at least 5% of the pop. that look like my kid and I look at the AA test scores.   Marshall and West Springfield "won".  Woodson with an honorable mention but had almost half the AA population of the other two.  Those clusters are where we plan to focus our search when we move....until the. We are very pleased with private school....and might continue to be all the way through 12th.  We are either going to pay 3 to 3.5 times more for our next home in these districts and hope these schools will be the best fit or stay put and spend the money on private.[/quote]

Where do you work?  Have you looked into Montgomery or Howard Counties (maybe too far)? [/quote]

we both work in Virginia[/quote]

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